The Skeptic Zone #468 - 8.Oct.2017

0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders 0:06:40 Interview with Dr Pamela Gay We find out how Dr Pamela Gay and you can help NASA analyze more than 1.5 million images taken by astronauts on the International Space Station! They need your help analyzing these images – this is a task only a human like you can accomplish. Please join them in enhancing NASA's extensive catalogue of astronaut images that can be used for science and enjoyed for their beauty. https://cosmoquest.org/x/beta/ 0:23:14 SHONKY Awards CHOICE's annual awards name and shame the shonkiest products and companies taking advantage of Australian consumers. - SHONKY: (adjective) Australian slang meaning "unreliable, unsound, dishonest, poor or of dubious quality; shoddy". https://www.choice.com.au/shonky-awards 0:30:55 Maynard's spooky action... at a distance Billie and the Dinosaurs Interviews with Tim Ferguson, Geoff and David Willis Three hundred million years ago, the world of the dinosaurs was called Pangea - a landmass that covered half the Earth until it broke into two supercontinents - Laurasia and Gondwanaland, which then broke into even more pieces, the largest of which was the island continent of Australia. Then, a great asteroid smashed into the Earth. And this started the Ice Age! And just like that, the dinosaurs were gone. Extinct. At least that's what Mrs Chalkmore taught her Year 4 class; and only one of her students knew that she was completely and utterly wrong - a girl called Billie. http://www.billieandthedinosaurs.com 0:40:07 A Grain of Salt with Eran Segev This week Eran chats to Massimo Polidoro and James Randi at the European Skeptics Congress. 0:45:50 Susan Gerbic on tour in Germany Susan chats to Holm Gero Hümmler who has been active in the German skeptics' group GWUP since 1990s. He was a regional spokesman and convenor for the Frankfurt area. For several years he was an editor of The Skeptiker magazine http://guerrillaskepticismonwikipedia.blogspot.com.au Also... Australian Skeptics - Late night radio segment with Mike Williams http://www.2gb.com/podcast/richard-saunders-from-australian-skeptics-society/ Australian Skeptics - Breakfast with John Stanley and Garry Linnell https://www.talkinglifestyle.com.au/?s=skeptics Maynard and Bunga Bunga http://www.maynard.com.au CSI Con - Las Vagas http://csiconference.org QED - Manchester http:https://www.talkinglifestyle.com.au/?s=skepticss//www.qedcon.org QED - Skepticamp Manchester http://www.skepticamp.co.uk SITP Organiser Survey - http://glasgowskeptics.com/sitp Skepticon Sydney http://www.skeptics.com.au